1997
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.304039
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Towards Full Employment

Abstract: Faster economic growth and wage restraint, especially for the low skilled, are necessary to increase employment. The tax and social security systems are more appropriate ways to compensate those with low incomes.

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“…The Department had previously used these data in the Commonwealth submissions, cited in the main text, showing that hours worked have been increasing fastest in highly paid occupations. The Dawkins (1999) and Keating (2002), and more recently it has been elaborated on in Dawkins (2001) and Dawkins and Keating (2002).…”
Section: Average Earnings and Full-time Employment For Detailed Occupmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Department had previously used these data in the Commonwealth submissions, cited in the main text, showing that hours worked have been increasing fastest in highly paid occupations. The Dawkins (1999) and Keating (2002), and more recently it has been elaborated on in Dawkins (2001) and Dawkins and Keating (2002).…”
Section: Average Earnings and Full-time Employment For Detailed Occupmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The wages explosions of I974-75 and 1980-81 could be seen has having resulted from the fact that the system was not truly decentralised. These two wages explosions had seriously detrimental effects on unemployment (Dawkins & Freebairn 1997).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, if the outcome from any future reform would be to adversely affect distributional outcomes without a definite prospect of improving efficiency or overall well‐being, this is a further reason for caution. In the late 1990s, the ‘five economists’ argued that distributional policy objectives were better addressed using the government's tax‐and‐transfer system than by adjusting minimum wages (see for example, Dawkins and Freebairn 1997, p. 414). I think this argument was correct: because workers who earn minimum wages are today spread across households at all points in the distribution of income (see for example, Leigh 2007), increasing the disposable incomes of low‐income households can be done much more effectively via extra welfare payments or tax cuts.…”
Section: What Should We Do?mentioning
confidence: 99%